Johnson was one of a number of senior Tories to dismiss the intervention, rejecting the idea of increased taxes on high-value homes.
This allowed Mr Salmond to politely dismiss the intervention as "technocratic", a description that suited both men well since it allowed both to pretend it had nothing to do with a referendum campaign, which one recent poll has suggested might be closer than has been assumed.
2 The estimated effect in primary care has a confidence interval that goes way above the whole CI for secondary care, so that it is quite inappropriate to dismiss the intervention on such slight evidence.
Many commentators immediately dismissed France's intervention.
No 10 dismissed Brown's intervention.
He dismissed Margallo's intervention as irrelevant noise and a waste of breath.
Salmond dismissed Miliband's intervention as he said that the SNP had only ever talked of pressing for an informal deal with a Labour-led government in a hung parliament.
Speaking on BBC1's Andrew Marr programme Nigel Farage, the UK Independence party leader, dismissed Fox's intervention as "baloney" and said the only way to cut migrant numbers was to regain control of UK borders by leaving the EU.
Even where courts were to dismiss such interventions, the need to engage in complex legal analysis or disputes at such a critical moment would represent an undesirable distraction for public officials aiming to respond to a critical situation.
He dismissed the official interventions as "a bit of dubious umpiring, I thought".
